One of the biggest problems related to the more wide-spread use of electric vehicles isn’t one of awareness, nor one of pricing, it’s one of infrastructure. The current infrastructure is focused exclusively on providing for internal combustion engines and as such getting ‘fuel’ for your electric car can prove to be rather hard when you’re not capable of recharging at home.

Tesla is not resting on their laurels, its CEO having recently revealed plans to create an affordable compact electric vehicle, which they plan to put up for sale early in the second half of this decade.

We talked a while back about how Renault Sport vehicles are going to be switching to automatic transmissions in the near future. Today we’ll be looking at the confirmed reports of a Renault Sport executive who said that they are taking a ‘very close look at’ electric vehicles technology.